Stuart Ford (entertainment executive)
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Stuart Ford is a British-born film and television producer based in Los Angeles.
In February 2018 Ford launched AGC Studios, an international film and television production and global licensing company that develops, produces, finances and globally licenses feature films, scripted, unscripted and factual television, digital, and musical content from its dual headquarters in Los Angeles and London.
Ford is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as well as the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
Professional career
[edit]Ford is a former entertainment attorney and studio executive who in 2018 founded AGC Studios.
Before IM Global, Ford was an executive at Miramax Films in New York where, in various executive capacities he was involved in the acquisition and/or production of numerous Academy Award recognized films including Shakespeare in Love, Chicago (2002 film), The Cider House Rules (film), Chocolat (2000 film), Gangs Of New York, and Amélie. He began his career in the early nineties as an entertainment industry lawyer at UK law firm Olswang.
Personal life
[edit]Ford was educated at the Liverpool Blue Coat School, and later obtained both a BA and an MA in Law from St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University.
Ford lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two sons.[1]
Awards
[edit]- 50 most influential individuals in global cinema: Stuart Ford - The Guardian 2010 [2]
- Variety Award for Achievement in International Film: Stuart Ford, IM Global - Variety 2015 [3]
- Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Executive Member: Stuart Ford - 2017 [4]
- Variety 500, 500 Most Important People in Global Media: Stuart Ford - 2021 [5]
- Variety Billion Dollar Producer: Stuart Ford - 2023 [6]
Filmography
[edit]- Geechee - producer
- Voyagers - executive producer
- The Secrets We Keep (2020) - producer
- The Rhythm Section (2020) - executive producer
- War of the Worlds (2019) - executive producer
- Midway (2019) - executive producer
- Serenity - (2019) executive producer
- The Professor (2018) - executive producer
- Boarding School - (2018) executive producer
- Zoe (2018) - executive producer
- Hacksaw Ridge (2016) - executive producer
- Free State of Jones (2016) - executive producer
- Silence (2016) - executive producer
- Incarnate (2016) - executive producer
- The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016) - executive producer
- Viral (2016) - executive producer
- Collide (2016) - executive producer
- Fifty Shades of Black (2016) - executive producer
- Southside With You (2016) - executive producer
- Secret in Their Eyes (2015) - executive producer
- Demonic (2015) - producer
- Area 51 (2015) - executive producer
- Grace: The Possession (2014) - executive producer
- Revenge of the Green Dragons (2014) - producer
- Enchanted Kingdom 3D (2014) (Documentary) - executive producer
- A Haunted House 2 (2014) - executive producer
- 13 Sins (2014) - executive producer
- Vampire Academy (2014) - executive producer
- Justin Bieber's Believe (2013) (Documentary) - producer
- Walking with Dinosaurs 3D (2013) - executive producer
- Plush (2013) - producer
- Afflicted (2013) - executive producer
- Locke (2013) executive producer
- The Sacrament (2013) - executive producer
- Parnoia (2013) - executive producer
- Hummingbird (2013) - executive producer
- Dead Man Down (2013) - executive producer
- Welcome to the Punch (2013) - executive producer
- A Haunted House (2013) - executive producer
- Bullet to the Head (2012) - executive producer
- Blood (2012) - executive producer
- Dredd (2012) - executive producer
- Safe (2012) - executive producer
- The Babymakers (2012) - executive producer
- 44 Inch Chest (2009) - executive producer
- Goal! III (2009) (Video) - executive producer
- Goal II: Living the Dream (2007) - executive producer
- The Official Film of the 2006 FIFA World Cup (TM) (2006) (Video documentary) - executive producer
- Summer Love (2006) - executive producer
References
[edit]- ^ The Hollywood Reporter - IM Global's Stuart Ford on His Cannes Plans, Soccer Obsession and Beating Cancer - by Pamela McClintock - May 9, 2012
- ^ The Guardian - New Guardian Film Power 100 list - September 24, 2010
- ^ Variety - Stuart Ford, IM Global Feted With Variety’s International Film Award - by Variety Staff - May 14, 2015
- ^ LA Times- Motion picture academy opens its doors to 774 new members in latest step to diversify its ranks - by Josh Rottenberg - June 28, 2017
- ^ "Variety500". Variety. 2017-09-26. Retrieved 2022-01-24.
- ^ AGC Studios’ Stuart Ford Honored as Variety’s Billion Dollar Producer in Cannes - May 20th, 2023